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melissa22
11-19-2008, 12:46 AM
What states have dielbold or e-voting still.

In my county we have paper ballots.

Anti Federalist
11-19-2008, 12:57 AM
:confused::confused::confused:

Spirit of '76
11-19-2008, 01:03 AM
I hope you don't mind, but I gave your thread a meaningful title.

Titling a thread "Ron Paul" is kind of superfluous here. ;)

melissa22
11-19-2008, 01:04 AM
I hope you don't mind, but I gave your thread a meaningful title.

Titling a thread "Ron Paul" is kind of superfluous here. ;)

Thanks I tried to fix it.

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Indy Vidual
11-19-2008, 01:06 AM
We get a choice, and I use a paper ballot.

Anti Federalist
11-19-2008, 01:14 AM
I hope you don't mind, but I gave your thread a meaningful title.

Titling a thread "Ron Paul" is kind of superfluous here. ;)

Ah, sweet clarity.

Paper ballots read by optical scanners in NH.

melissa22
11-19-2008, 01:16 AM
Ah, sweet clarity.

Paper ballots read by optical scanners in NH.

What are your thoughts on optical scanners?

Anti Federalist
11-19-2008, 04:46 AM
What are your thoughts on optical scanners?

Hackable, just as easily as the touchscreen systems can be, and not to be trusted.

Only upside is that there is a paper trail of physical ballots.

Many smaller towns in NH use strictly hand count paper ballots.

melissa22
11-19-2008, 04:24 PM
Hackable, just as easily as the touchscreen systems can be, and not to be trusted.

Only upside is that there is a paper trail of physical ballots.

Many smaller towns in NH use strictly hand count paper ballots.

Define hackable please. I'm not exactly sure what you you mean.

Do you mean before hand? If so, how?????

Only some places in NH have hand counted ballots, correct?

RonPaulNewbee
11-19-2008, 06:27 PM
I worked the election this year in Maryland and we used Diebold, with touch screen. There were security clips that would show any tampering on the voting booth (suitcase thingys). And all the election judges open, check their poll books for tampering and all zeros before polls open at 7am. Each voting booth has paper returns on a calculator-type paper roll. The returns are not connected to an outside network. Have no idea if hackable.

Minlawc
11-19-2008, 09:02 PM
I know, in Ohio, we have machine voting with a paper trail you can actually see. I usualy check closely in case the paper doesn't correspond with what I have touched.

I understand that there are many states, mostly in the South, that don't have a paper trail?

tonesforjonesbones
11-19-2008, 09:25 PM
Florida got rid of those voting machines. tones (paper ballots fed into a scanner)

melissa22
11-20-2008, 11:38 AM
I worked the election this year in Maryland and we used Diebold, with touch screen. There were security clips that would show any tampering on the voting booth (suitcase thingys). And all the election judges open, check their poll books for tampering and all zeros before polls open at 7am. Each voting booth has paper returns on a calculator-type paper roll. The returns are not connected to an outside network. Have no idea if hackable.

Yes, completely hackable and preprogrammed to spit out planned voting data for each candidate, bill etc. Thus Diebolded.

melissa22
11-20-2008, 11:39 AM
I know, in Ohio, we have machine voting with a paper trail you can actually see. I usualy check closely in case the paper doesn't correspond with what I have touched.

I understand that there are many states, mostly in the South, that don't have a paper trail?

No in the north most are e-voting.


We have ballots by paper and scanners.

cthulhufan
11-20-2008, 11:52 AM
At our polling place we have the option for optical scan or touch screen; neither of which I'm happy about.